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Anybody suffer from tinnitus?

Threegoofs said:
Do whatever you want.

But don’t give medical advice intended for you to others, Oprah.
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I don't need your permission, nor do I require anyone to do what I suggest. Goofy.
 
OldFatGuy said:
I was already angered by a fake pharmacist. Cortisone is an anti-inflammatory you will find as an ingredient in almost every prescribed ear cream. The otc versions are 1% solutions, less than a 20th of what is found in prescribed ear creams. As with any medication, prescribed or otc, one must experiment for negative undesired effects. You use a little, no problems, then you continue the therapy. The word steroid has become an anathema for the panic ridden, yet steroids are regularly used in medicinal therapies successfully employed to help millions. Today, there are growing questions about the use of NSAID therapies, including aspirin. If aspirin were a recent development, not a long term accepted otc therapy, likely it would be a prescribed medication and as tightly controlled as morphine.

There are more than enough good reasons to ignore medical critics on message boards. You said "Don't stick anything in your ear." How do you think those prescribed creams are applied to the ear canal? What mechanism is used? Could it be a Q tip? Who is giving bad advice? I suggest you examine your own words.

Everything ever posted or that will be posted on an internet message board, in relation to any topic, is from a personal perspective. Including medical advice. Certainly a physician should be the first choice for medical advice, but what do you do when physicians fail you, or as is common with this particular malady, give up?
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I rely on my pharmacist, doctor and common sense. Sticking steroids in my ear to see if my skin is dry is some warped advice I would never follow from some stranger on the net.
 
OldFatGuy said:
Beats using a jack hammer. Where is your sense of humor?
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I lost it when I read some guy on a message board telling a lady with tinnitus to stick steroids in her ear and if it helped, then she has dry skin.:screwy
 
Enola said:
I rely on my pharmacist, doctor and common sense. Sticking steroids in my ear to see if my skin is dry is some warped advice I would never follow from some stranger on the net.
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If the skin in your ear canal is dry, meaning you likely suffer an eczemic or psoriatic infection, do tell us how your doctor treats your ailment and how you apply the creme or ointment he or she prescribes as a therapy. Don't trust me for a possible simple alleviation of your condition. Go to your physician. And do tell us all that you learn. No one has suggested anyone stick a steroid in their ear to learn if their skin is dry. Get your story straight.

Pharmacists do not diagnose maladies, and they certainly don't qualify as prescribers of therapies. So go ask your pharmacist for a cure.

Whatever you do, watch out for the giant steroid from outer space, it hangs with the giant herpes from outer space. Space herpes are really scary.
 
Enola said:
I lost it when I read some guy on a message board telling a lady with tinnitus to stick steroids in her ear and if it helped, then she has dry skin.:screwy
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You lost it long before you encountered me.
 
I think I am done addressing you. No. I'm sure.
 
Yep, and likely will for the rest of my life. I have something known as Meniere's Disease, with tinnitus being one of the milder symptoms of it. Mine varies from being nearly non-existent to being obnoxiously present for long stretches of time. On the plus side, it sometimes is actually a helpful thing; if it kicks up really badly all of a sudden, often it's an indication that a vertigo attack to some degree is inbound for me.
 
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